I love Jane Austen but not for the reasons one would think. As a male I have zero interest in the story lines. I don’t give a damn what happens to the Bennet sisters,get them to a nunnery for all I care but I find Austen one of the very few novelists one can read at random. Pick a page, pick a paragraph; magnificent prose all.Perhaps if I had paid more attention to the stories, I would have learned this and given a damn if I were a woman.

A growing number of research studies suggest that sleep may be the secret to performing at your highest level, writes David K. Randall. Everyone from the military to athletes are starting to get serious about sleep.